Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Plea from Wikimedia Portugal

2018-10-12 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
I don't think there is little hope neither for WMPT, not for AffCom. WMPT is, by all accounts, an healthy chapter - or at least in frank recovery - which, for about one year is having intermittent problems with a single associate, in what can be well described as a growing pain. Since the long dor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Plea from Wikimedia Portugal

2018-10-12 Thread Pine W
I'm making some general comments, which I plan will be my last in this thread for awhile: * I think that a certain amount of compliance verification for WMF trademark agreements and affiliate agreements is understandable, and AffCom is one body that can participate in that verification. * WMF's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Plea from Wikimedia Portugal

2018-10-12 Thread Chico Venancio
I am not surprised by the lack of follow through by Affcom. In the Brazilian case we were told a few times we met all requisites for chapter recognition, but the existence of another user group in the country was something they felt was enough to disqualify us until they figured out their rules. Up